Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey on the one hand and Russia on the other declare that the condition of war between them has ceased. The contracting parties will refrain from all agitation or propaganda against the governments or all state and military institutions of the other side. The territories lying to the west of the line determined by the contracting powers and which formerly belonged to Russia will no longer be under her sovereignty. In respect to the mentioned territories no obligations towards Russia are to be considered as issuing from their formerly having belonged to that country.
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Harold Manchester Fleming (1900-1971), a stock analyst, financial writer, and Wall Street correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor assembled the first collection. After graduating from Harvard College, Fleming served as a field inspector for the American Relief Administration, established after World War I to combat hunger in war-torn Europe. During this time he gathered and shipped home more than a hundred posters of the period. The posters arrived with the donation of his papers to the Library's Manuscripts and Archives Division in the 1970s.

In 2002, Paul S. In December 2003, Alex Rabinovich donated thirty-four additional original posters from the Russian Revolution and Civil War further enhancing these holdings; they will eventually join this virtual collection. Background Related Resources Baburina, N.I. Baburina, N.I.
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The artist Max Penson fled his hometown of Velizh in Belorussia during the pogroms of 1915, and settled in Kokand, where he taught drawing. By 1925 he had become a professional photographer working at the newspaper Pravda Vostoka. Penson was friendly with Rodchenko, Zelma and Sergei Eisenstein, and his work reflected the same modernist concerns. Eisenstein wrote in 1940: "There cannot be many masters left who choose a specific terrain for their work, dedicate themselves to it completely and make it an integrated part of their personal destiny… It is, for instance, virtually impossible to speak about the city of Fergana without mentioning the omnipresent Penson who traveled all over Uzbekistan with his camera.